Unwritten

"So, here I am, starting out 2009 worse than 2008, but praying that it ends on a better note." - A blog from the beginning of 2009 Writing one of these has sort of become a tradition for me as the year draws to a close, so here we go. I have learned that I am me. I don't have to be like everyone else. I don't have to do the things everyone else does to be experiencing life to the fullest; I experience life in my own unique way. I have learned that as I was growing up, my fear of getting in trouble and having people disappointed in me was what kept me from doing anything wrong. Now, I am thankful for that because my reputation as a good person is one of the most important things to me. I have learned that I will meet the people I am supposed to meet. There's no need for me to force my presence upon people. Things will happen how they're supposed to. I have learned that the best kind of friends are the ones who believe in the beauty of your dreams and make them ...

“Teaching, as we all know, is an essentially theatrical business, and it is this transformative power of the theatre that makes teaching the most glorious, the most fulfilling, the most profound of all professions. When we enter a theatre, the playwright and the director and the actors ask us to suspend our disbelief and give ourselves over to the illusion of the play. We teachers do the same, and we do it for even higher stakes. Today we shall begin to construct our stages from scratch. On Tuesday we shall ask our students to suspend their disbelief and leap into learning how to read, to think, to write, to speak, to imagine, to know themselves, to conquer fears and disabilities, to believe that one day they will indeed be able to give the world the shape of their own minds, that they will indeed discover what poet Robert Bly calls that ‘unhatched abundance, that winged life’ within themselves that they never dreamt could be made visible. We shall persuade them to give themselves to t...